Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-04-29
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kHs1sRss sin Delaware Con16y, n. q NJ
J has n pork barTsl that has sbeeI q e0nstant
use Tor l6l years.
sEvxs years ago !. Are broke dnt Ii,
4 deep mlino near Virginia Cit, NeI.f md III
si;:s beens burning ever since.
OR Of the queer things Of life is thst tie.
man who knows it ali seldom can tell any
of II To any body satist ction. ssr,.sl 81
q LdAcdtioa.s gs$8 "A .3Ss
AN Indian girl has been born without q
mouth. The BurEngt ton Free f'rsss thinks
she will very soon begin to realize that she;
hi.s forgotten some thing. 5f. q ss
4 81 Elk GovEBNoR GuKqIN, Of Pennsylvsnaa,
4 says he pardoned 125 men out OF Jail all of
whom enlisted under Farragut Not one
Of them survived the war. #$5 sss
( a MADRID scholar, Senior Carulla, WHO
has been for many years at work on a
rhymed version Of the Bible, has completed
his task. The work contains 2GO, 600 verses.
TnasI Lynn l1ass. JsBee says.a young wom.4
an WA recently poisoned by the arsenic
washed Son I'd her face from two birds on
her bonnet while she was riding during q
rain-storm. She recoverei /. 3sSs 4 s..e
OsCEoLA, q town en,the west side OF the
Cascades, in Washington Territory, boasts
/ OF q school-mistress OF eighteen summers
and weight of325 pounds. The Chicago
HsraM says she is the one attraction Of the
town. o. SIS. .a::fEsa:a ?.5 $'4 ~
The Baltimore Sun says that Tor over
century the wealthy planters Of Maryland
lived in ignorance of the Righteousness Of
terrapin ana only their slaves ate them.
Now they are glad to get them ct fifty
cents pate. ys&ef :, {l2..Ss
HARPER's WEEKLY " tells of we'll
known novelist from New York who with
drew his account from a bank because the
teller had a way Of throwing down hls pass
book when he made deposit that was
"unspeakably irritating.' .go 49,.
LAMP chimheys may be annealed, it is
! said, so that they will not crack, by plac-
ing them in cold water, gradually bringing
the water to the boiling point, and then al
| lowing it to cool slowly, the operation to
be repeated several times. ,:.s s,,.
! AT a sale Of unclaimed articles at Penn
! sylvanla railroad Office, one bidder bought
a good sewing machine for four dollars and
a quarter. A man. bought a good overcoat
| for twenty-five cents. One package was
found to be full Of baby rnittens.
SAYS the proprietor Of a st. LOUIS type
foundry: Here we are on the eve Of 1888,
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figure 8. The triple use OF figures ip the
annals of time will not occur again until
4 1911, 1899, 2o0o, 20aa, I'LL, 21222 22o2 22l2,
23:y2 etc" =
HERDER drove two Thousand six hum
dred sheep into a corral at. Tie Siding,
Wy. T., and, after, banking the fire in an
adjacent cabin, went to sleep. A spark
few into the straw of the sheds, and while
the herder slept the corral and all the sheep
were destroyed by fire. ~
The streams penetrating the Gogebic
iron range near the south shore Of Lake
Superior are said to be so black with dis
celebration from the ore that fish can not
live in them. This is particularly true of
the Montreal river, the northern State line
between Wisconsin and Michigan.
PARsoN COLE, OF Lowell, Mass, drives a
little nag that won't weigh over seven
hundred pounds, and which has never been
shod; yet he drove it from Lowell to Chi
cago, and back to Richmond, Me-, and the
little fellow showed no signs of being foot
sore. So says the Boston Journal f.
Ten steamers, including all the cattle
steamers OF one of the great ocean lines
sailing from, New York, are regularly pro
vided with a supply Of oil to ':pour upon
the troubled Waters'' in case of need The
punctured canvas bags filed with oakum
PockET-wARMERs are q new device TO,
keeping the hands warm. A warmer il
composed Of tin box an inch in damete,
and six inches long, holding fuse Of slow
burning material, which burns for more
th.an an hour without smoke or gas. The
warmer is put in pocket OF carried in {
mutt. S.c. Ill., 49, +
A SPR1SePIEtp MASS. housewife wa
considerably surprised recently to see
dove crash through q pane of glass thirty
inches square and Of extra thickness in hel
parlor window, and, after circling aroune
the room, apparently uninjured, fly on
through the hole it had made IN tn.
window. ~ s..
The president of the Berlin police call.
attention to the advantages accruing to DO
lice authorities every where by taking pro
file photographs of criminals which viii
distinctly show the left ear. He says tina
while the features Of the face change il
the course Of time the ear retains its shap
forever, and, furthermore, there are n
two persons whose ears are IDENTICAL,
formed. E =
ERAsTUs WIMAN, who is, a baseball man
ager as we'll as man Of extensive business
interests, says that at least s2,50O,0O0 i
Il SpGuI yearly Ill Ut3S6-O4ll III ILLS country
This Is further evidence Of the fact tina
Americans never DO any thing by halves
But IS not this thing everdone? It woul,
seem 80 when salaries for good player
range as high as IS, 600. It is becoming
business rather than sporty Y Till
una. - >*''.''-$ ~
The Oregon State officials were throw,
intoa bewildered state Of arnazement re
Gently when the Secretary Of State re
Il ceived bag containing 1929. SO from tn
county court Of Josephine County. III
Legislature at its last session made an ar
preparation fora bridge across the river q
Grants Pass. The bridge and anothe
were built out Of the appropriation, and tn
above was the balance left, which was sen
back to be placsd In the State Treasury.
II Il FoRrr years NO Thomas Pitts, of War
~ wick, N. Y, q shoemaker, made q pair Z
!, Ahoes for 9 widow, who died before tn
| bill, S1.75, was setflsd. Her son, who az
!. ministered on her estate, refused to pa
!, the bill, and soon the family became eel
: arated. u Last week Nr. Pitts received
3 letter from the execution. inclosmg IS |
pay for the shoes, adding that he wante
. 1t of his mind, as he was growing old. M
Pitts had not thought Of the bin for thirt,
!, hive year ~. Y. Times. FES
= What the Letters Meant. ..9
.Ah!'' said the stranger, this is
: strange country There are all sort
Z Of people here, and it shows how viii
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